unpopular with the vulgar. Moreover, the friar, who was a very cunning
person, wished to keep well with the mob: he was fond of his own
impudent, cheating, burly carcass, and had the prudence to foresee that
a time might come when his royal patrons might forsake him, and a mob
might be a terrible monster to meet in his path; therefore he always
affected to love the poor, often told their fortunes gratis, now and
then gave them something to drink, and was esteemed a man exceedingly
good-natured, because he did not always have the devil at his back.

Now Friar Bungey had naturally enough evinced from the first a great
distaste and jealousy of Adam Warner; but occasionally profiting by the
science of the latter, he suffered his resentment to sleep latent till
it was roused into fury by learning the express favour shown to Adam by
the king, and the marvellous results expected from his contrivance. His
envy, then, forbade all tolerance and mercy; the world was not large
enough to contain two such giants,--Bungey and Warner, the genius and
the quack. To the best of our experience, the quacks have the same creed
to our own day. He vowed deep vengeance upon his associate, and spared
no arts to foment the popular hatred against him. Friar Bungey would
have been a great critic in our day!

But besides his jealousy, the fat friar had another motive for desiring
poor Adam's destruction; he coveted his model! True, he despised the
model, he jeered the model, he abhorred the model; but, nevertheless,
for the model every string in his bowels fondly yearned. He believed
that if that model were once repaired, and in his possession, he could
do--what he knew not, but certainly all that was wanting to complete his
glory, and to bubble the public.

Unconscious of all that was at work against him, Adam threw his whole
heart and soul into his labour; and happy in his happiness, Sibyll once
more smiled gratefully upon Hastings, from whom the rapture came.

CHAPTER VII. A LOVE SCENE.

More than ever chafed against Katherine, Hastings surrendered himself
without reserve to the charm he found in the society of Sibyll. Her
confidence being again restored, again her mind showed itself to
advantage, and the more because her pride was further roused to assert
the equality with rank and gold which she took from nature and from God.

It so often happens that the first love of woman is accompanied with
a bashful timidity, which overcomes the